Video: meteoroid over Russia's Far East, Jan 18, 2015

[cosmologics]

A meteoroid over the city of Blagoveshchensk in Russia's Far East, Jan 18, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmVmj75g7iQ

 

[ISProgram]

What's so good about Russia that makes all the space rocks want to go over there?!

 

[Artlav]

What's so good about Russia that makes all the space rocks want to go over there?!

The largest territory, encompassing 1/7th of all dry land?

 

[boogabooga]

Looks a lot like space junk, not that it is easy to tell the difference.

 

[Urwumpe]

What's so good about Russia that makes all the space rocks want to go over there?!

Soviet Russia goes over space rocks.

 

[Kyle]

IMO, it's moving way too slow to be a bolide. I think it's a leftover rocket stage burning up.

 

[jedidia]

What's so good about Russia that makes all the space rocks want to go over there?!

They like the statistical odds of hitting it :lol:

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

IMO, it's moving way too slow to be a bolide. I think it's a leftover rocket stage burning up.

Indeed, it looks like that it's actually the 2nd stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched CRS-5 a week ago: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2015/0122.html